Re: printer setup
On 3/3/07, Don Montgomery <donm@methodbydesign.com> wrote:
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My best guess as to my miss-step is that I accepted
encyption and authentication in the kprinter setup as
defaults, and muddled the choices involved. I expect that
I compounded my errors by subsequently using apt-get to
try to remove cups and install lprng, and later to undo
those actions. I understand that cups is preferred.
Below are the last 50 lines of /var/log/cups/error_log.
I need to be able to print textfiles and postscript from
the commandline, and to print from within windowed apps as
well. I wonder if there is a way to re-run
debian-installer for nothing but the printer installation?
I would like to have a clean slate for printer
installation, without undoing the work I have done on the
rest of the system. Thanks in advance for any ideas.
I apologize if this is the wrong list for this issue.
Don
Sorry this isn't a 'click here and type this' answer, but this ought
to get you going in the right direction. In the documentation tab of
the web administration interface (you know the one,
http://localhost:631), search for "Authentication Issues". If that
doesn't have what you need, you can rerun the debconf dialogs with
'dpkg-reconfigure cupsys'. I haven't enabled the encryption or
authentication stuff, my printers and print servers are in the same
subnets as the clients. It sounds like your printer is directly
connected to your box, so I wouldn't bother with it. The cupsd.conf
file has lots of comments, so if you want to get in to that have the
cupsd.conf reference manual available.
good luck,
--
Matt
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